22-23 May 2012Cezayir Meeting HallGalatasaray-Istanbul

For registration: genderconf@sabanciuniv.eduhttp://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/genderconf

GENDERED MEMORIES OF WAR AND POLITICAL VIOLENCEGENDERED MEMORIES OF WAR AND POLITICAL VIOLENCEWorkshop Organized in The Framework of The Central European University - Sabancı University Joint Academic Initiative

by Ayşe Gül Altınay and Andrea PetöWorkshop Organized in The Framework of The Central European University - Sabancı University Joint Academic Initiative

by Ayşe Gül Altınay and Andrea Petö

22 May 2012, Tuesday

9.00 - 10.30

Andrea Petö & Ayşe Gül Altınay Central European University Introductions

& Sabancı University

Cynthia Enloe Clark University

Which Wartime Women are Remembered in Post-Wartime and Which

Forgotten? And Why Should Feminists Care?

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.00 – 12.45 Panel I /D: Başak Demirhan “It’s all fiction”? – Gendered Memories of War in Literature and the Arts

Hülya Adak Sabancı University

Gendered Memories of World War I and the Armenian Genocide in Turkish

Fiction

İrvin Cemil Schick İstanbul Şehir University

The Gendering and Sexualization of War: Fiction and Implanted Memories

in a Euro - Ottoman Context

Çimen Günay Özyeğin University

Women's Post-Coup Writing: March 12 Novel and Gender

Sophie Milquet Free University of Brussels Women's Memory of the Spanish Civil War: The Power of Words

Kornelia Slavova University of Sofia

Testimonies of War and Love: Eve Ensler's Play Necessary Targets and

Jasmila Žbanic' Film Grbavica

12.45 – 13.45 Lunch

13.45 – 15.30 Panel II / D: Cynthia Enloe Women’s Narratives of War and Soldiering

Gianluca Schiavo University of Bergamo

The Italian Civil War in the Memoirs of Fascist Female Soldiers

Karen Turner College of the Holy Cross

Troubling Silences: Sexuality and Rape inVietnamese Women Veterans'

Harvard Law School Narratives of War

Setenay Nil Doğan Yıldız Technical University “We Left Our Skirts to Men as We Went to the Front”: The Participation of

Abkhazian Women from Turkey in the Abkhazian War

Christina M. Morus The Richard Stockton College Invisible Agents of War: A Critical

of New Jersey Consideration of Militarized Women in the Bosnian War

Orna Sasson-Levy, Yagil Levy, Bar-Ilan University, Women Breaking the Silence: Gendered Testimonies of Israeli Women

Edna Lomsky-Feder The Open University of Israel, Soldiers as Women's Anti-War Voices

Hebrew University - Jerusalem

15.30 – 15.45 Coffee/Tea

15.45 – 17.15 Panel III / D: Umut Yıldırım The Wars at "Home"

Salih Can Açıksöz University of Texas, Austin “Being-on-the-Mountains”:Disabled Veterans, Embodied War Memories,

and Masculinities in Turkey

Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu University of Sussex The Invisible Labour Upholding Militarism: Women’s Experiences

of War-Related Disability of Their Partners in Turkey

Stephanie E. Yuhl College of the Holy Cross

Re-membering Home: Narrating Homelessness among Female U.S.

Soldiers Returning from the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Rebecca Bryant Middle East Technical University NCC The Ambivalence of Home: Intimate Objects After War

17.15 – 17.30 Coffee/Tea

17.30 – 19.00 Panel IV / D: Olga Demetriou Gendering Memories of Resistance

Weronika Grzebalska Warsaw University

Gender Dimensions of the Warsaw Uprising

Katherine Stefatos Goldsmiths College,

Engendering Violence: Sexual Torture and Trauma during the

University of London Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974)

Ömür Yılmaz and Umut Özkaleli Gender and Minorities Institute, “What was my war like?” Deconstructing the Gendered History

Nicosia of Resistance and War within the Turkish Cypriot Community

Miriam Geerse Utrecht University

Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey: Paying Attention to the

Gendered Silences in Kurdish Stories about War Violence

23 May 2012, Wednesday 9.00 – 10.45 Panel V / D: Ayfer Bartu Candan Sexual Violence: Silence, Narration, Resistance

Felicia Yap London School of Economics

Remembering the Pacific War: Memories of European and Asian Women

in Japanese- Occupied Territories

Helle Rydström Lund University

Gendered and Sexualized Violence in Colonial Vietnam: Sovereign Power

and Wrought Bodies

Helen Liebling-Kalifani and Coventry University and Inst. For Higher “I became a woman with a bad reputation in my society”: Gendered

Henny Sleigh Education in Mental Health, Goma Responses to Women Who Bear Children Through Rape in Eastern Congo.

Darcy Buerkle Humboldt University

Beyond Bosnia: Affect and the Study of Sexual Violence in the Feminist

Smith College

Classroom

Jose Fernando The University of Sydney

“We are making history”: Narrating Homophobic Violence in Contexts

Serrano-Amaya

of Political Violence

10.45 – 11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.00 – 12.15 Panel VI / D: Anna Reading

Gender, Sexual Violence and International Law

Laura McLeod University of Manchester

Memories and Agendas: Producing Visions of Post-Conflict Gender

Security in Serbia

Marjaana Jauhola University of Helsinki

Re-politicization of Implementing UNSC 1325 in Finland: Critical

Memory Work by Third Generation Women on Sexual and Gendered

Violence of WWII in Finland (Lapland War 1944-5) as Feminist Politics

Gabriela Mischkowski medica mondiale (Female) Rape Testimonies before the International Criminal Court for

the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

12.15 – 13.15 Lunch 13.15 – 14.45

Panel VII / D: Arlene Avakian Gendering the Armenian Genocide

Doris K. Melkonian University of California, Los Angeles Armenian Women and Men Narrating Sexual Violence during the

Armenian Genocide

Anna Aleksanyan Armenian Genocide Museum Institute The Gender Issue: The Dilemma of Re-Armenianization of Armenian

Women after the Genocide

Hourig Attarian Concordia University

Storying Narratives of Silences and Secrets in the Aftermath of

Genocide

Ayşe Gül Altınay Sabancı University

Gendered Silencing of Islamized Armenians

14.45 – 15.00 Coffee/Tea

15.00 – 16.30 Panel VIII / D: Banu Karaca

Visualizing Memories of War

Tasoula Vervenioti Helenic Open University

Women Detainees of the Greek Civil War (1946-49): The Dominant

Memory, the Women's Memoirs and a Photographic Archive

Andrea Petö Central European University

Forgotten Perpetrators: Photographs of Female Perpetrators after WWII

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo University of California, Los Angeles Iterant Remains: The Ethics and Poetics of Mediating the Necropolitical

in Cambodia and Vietnam

Neery Melkonian Blind Dates and Accented Feminism When Love and Violence Meet

Curatorial Projects16.30 – 16.45

Coffee/Tea 16.45 – 18.00

Panel IX / D: Katthy Davis Reflecting on Feminist Memory Work

Anna Reading University of Western Sydney

Gender, Digital Memory, and New Narratives of Resilience

Cynthia Cockburn The City University London

Violence, Democracy and Time: Women Living and Re-Living Conflict

(N. Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Israel-Palestine)

Nadje Al-Ali SOAS, University of London

Reflections on Gendered Memories of Wars and Violence in

Post-Invasion Iraq

18.00 – 19.00 General Discussion